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Focus

Focus will be back late in 2015 with engaging conversation about ideas and issues. In recent months, we’re creating a model for what our local, morning call-in show will look and sound like when we re-launch the program late this year. We’re looking for a host to build on that vision.

The Focus archive offers thousands of great interviews on millions of subjects. Explore and enjoy the Focus Archive below.

Sojourner's diminutive size didn't stop it from captivating millions of people when it beamed back the first-ever photos from the red terrain of Mars. But the Pathfinder mission's story goes far back beyond that first contact. NASA engineer Andrew Mishkin joins us today on Focus to give us the details on the massive effort made by the world's best minds to land an artificial intelligence on the surface of Mars.

For many people, The Origin of Species marks the end of faith. But professor of philosophy Michael Ruse argues otherwise. He says that, in a way, the ideas of Charles Darwin can be seen as a solution to the loss of faith, rather than its cause. This morning on Focus we'll talk to Ruse about the persistence of Darwinian thinking and his belief that evolutionary ethics is still a thriving part of the lives of Americans, although religion does still play a major role.